Flying Squid@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 8 months agoWhat has she done to stop the genocide on Alderaan?lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square218fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkWhat has she done to stop the genocide on Alderaan?lemmy.worldFlying Squid@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 8 months agomessage-square218fedilink
minus-squareessell@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoShe was a leading figure in a paramilitary organisation, both before and after the death of the emperor. So, maybe?
minus-squareNewDark@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoWhat do you think the United States is more like? A guerilla insurgency or a miltaristic empire imposing its will on the rest of society?
minus-squareNewDark@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-28 months agoSo Leia isn’t a great analog. Maybe a Vader / Palpatine election would be closer to reality I misread that, hold up. The United States of America spends more money on it’s military than the next 10 countries COMBINED. The United States has ~800 military bases all around the world in foreign countries. This doesn’t sound like an empire to you?
minus-squareNewDark@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoLiterally the whole first trilogy is an allegory for the Vietnam war where the US is the empire
minus-squareCryophilia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoI think he was saying that the US began as am insurgency.
minus-squareNewDark@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoGood point and interpretation. Didn’t think of the language as a progression in time instead of a ranking.
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-28 months agoLeia was leader of the imperial police? Y’all can’t distinguish between movies and reality.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoYeah, you’d think that would be exactly what she wanted.
She was a leading figure in a paramilitary organisation, both before and after the death of the emperor. So, maybe?
What do you think the United States is more like? A guerilla insurgency or a miltaristic empire imposing its will on the rest of society?
First one, then the other.
Well you’re wrong
So Leia isn’t a great analog. Maybe a Vader / Palpatine election would be closer to realityI misread that, hold up.
The United States of America spends more money on it’s military than the next 10 countries COMBINED.
The United States has ~800 military bases all around the world in foreign countries.
This doesn’t sound like an empire to you?
Literally the whole first trilogy is an allegory for the Vietnam war where the US is the empire
I think he was saying that the US began as am insurgency.
Good point and interpretation. Didn’t think of the language as a progression in time instead of a ranking.
Leia was leader of the imperial police?
Y’all can’t distinguish between movies and reality.
So the internet certainly tells me.
Yeah, you’d think that would be exactly what she wanted.